Columella Res Rustica 5.10.20

ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner

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Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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Current edition Perseus

Res Rustica. Books I-IX (Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.)

Notes on the current edition

Res Rustica

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2. mulsa ac: mulsia SA.
3. Scaudiana scripsi: Scaidianam S: Gaudiana Aac.
4. pedusiana SAac.
5. struthia Aac: strati S.
6. hiemem edd. ex libro de Arboribus 25, 1: essem SA: messem ac.
7. mororum edd. ex libro de Arboribus l.c.: malorum SA. a From Crustumium in Etruria. b From Signia in Latium. c So called, according to Pliny (N.H. XV. § 55) because they are ripe at the time of the barley-harvest. d So called from the person who introduced it (Pliny, l.c; Cato, R.R., VII. 3). e Probably called after a member of the gens Naevia, who perhaps also introduced the Naevian olive (Book XII. 50. 1). f Called after M. Favonius, an imitator of Cato (Cicero, Att. I. 14. 5). g From Laterium near Arpinum, where Q. Cicero had a villa (Cicero, Alt. XI. 1).